Dopamine is released above baseline levels during pleasurable, reinforcing, salient, or survival-important activities, signaling the brain to approach and repeat such behaviors.

“uh but when we do something that's pleasurable or reinforcing or that our brains consider Salient or important for survival so in some cases it might even be an aversive stimulus um then temporarily we will increase stok mean firing above Baseline that generally feels good to us which is how we tell our brains oh this is important I should approach explore and consider doing this again”